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Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage by bestes on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @12:39PM (#798304)
Yes, they did a firmware update. Here is one article that talks about it: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-barracuda-1.5TB-fre...
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Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage by herf on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @06:26PM (#799076)
Seagate took about 4 months to fully resolve the issue (their first fix had a bug!) I had a drive that bricked when applying the fix several months after the initial firmware updates. Apparently a buffer overflow in the error log that locked the drive on reboot.

Seems dangerous to source all your hardware from one vendor over a small timeframe. Would be nice to have some redundancy over manufacturers too.

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